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‘Guys … Where Are We?’ ABC The unsettling question above, posed by Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan) at the end of the two-part pilot episode, set the tone for the rest of the series. As Jack, John Locke (Terry O’Quinn), Kate Austin (Evangeline Lilly), James “Sawyer” Ford (Josh Holloway), Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), Hugo Reyes (Jorge Garcia), and the rest of the survivors scrambled to make sense of their unfriendly surroundings, this became the narrative driving force behind the first season(s) of “Lost....

Natalie Dormer Thought Her Game Of Thrones Death Was A ‘Golden Ticket’ HBO When an actor signs onto a TV series, it can be a leap of faith. The threat of cancellation in an ever-increasing unpredictable media landscape hovers over ensemble casts like the Sword of Damocles. On the flip side, for a popular TV series like HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” the series can last for an incredibly long time. When this happens, it introduces a new dilemma: characters outlasting their narrative purpose....

Olivia Cooke Wasn’t Sure She Wanted To Win Her House Of The Dragon Role HBO By Jamie Gerber/Oct. 12, 2022 4:10 pm EST “Game of Thrones” may have one of the most widely derided series finales in the history of television, but that hasn’t stopped HBO from searching for ways to continue expanding the universe of this still massively popular show. I was not a fan of the way the original series — which I loved — wrapped up and I have to admit that tempered my expectations for “House of the Dragon....

Peaky Blinders Was Careful With Referencing Its Gangster Movie Roots Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 30, 2022 9:44 am EST “Peaky Blinders” is part of a continuum of gangster movies and TV shows that dates back to the early 1930s when actors like James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson were making black-and-white films such as “The Public Enemy” and “Little Caesar.” Even on television, “Peaky Blinders” was predated by prestige dramas like “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire,” but one thing that set it apart from the bulk of its predecessors was its focus on a street gang in Birmingham, England, as opposed to the Italian mafia in America....

Saturday Night Live’s Season 48 Premiere Gets Super Meta With Miles Teller And Jon Hamm NBC By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2022 4:26 pm EST “Saturday Night Live” is back with a new season and a much smaller cast. After a total of eight cast members left the show between the season 47 finale farewells and the pre-season departures, the cast of “SNL” now feels much more manageable, and there are even a few new faces on the block....

Taking A Break From Acting Was Never Something John Wayne Had The Luxury To Do Republic Pictures By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 4, 2022 5:54 pm EST John Wayne had been working steadily in movies for over 30 years when principal photography wrapped on Howard Hawkes’ “Rio Bravo” in 1958, and the miles were beginning to wear on the screen legend. At the age of 52, retirement was out of the question. He’d launched Batjac Productions only six years prior, and had his heart set on at long last bringing his labor of love, “The Alamo,” to life....

The 20 Best John Carpenter Movies Ranked Compass International Pictures By Chad Collins/Oct. 19, 2022 11:45 am EST John Carpenter is a horror legend. Over his decades-long career, he has turned out classic after classic, even being awarded the Golden Coach Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The likes of “Halloween” reinvented the horror genre, revolutionizing the slasher film while cementing chief antagonist Michael Myers as a horror icon to be reckoned with....

The Banshees Of Inisherin Forced Me To Reconcile With My Own Nonsense Searchlight Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 21, 2022 7:00 pm EST This article contains spoilers for “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Letting go of a relationship can be hard. If you’re the kind of person who has rejection sensitivity or abandonment issues, letting go can be even more challenging. I’ve never been great at leaving the past behind, as a combination of ADHD and C-PTSD makes the time a little less linear for me and the past can reappear in my mind at any moment with just as much clarity as the day it happened....

Ultra: Everything We Know About Steven Spielberg And Tony Kushner’s Adaptation Of The Fascinating Podcast MSNBC/Surprise Inside By Erin Brady/Dec. 15, 2022 4:07 pm EST Podcasts have slowly become the go-to source for new intellectual property that Hollywood can adapt for film and television. Whether the podcast tells a true story or is a purely fictitious drama, the burgeoning audio format has had its fair share of live-action adaptations, primarily in the form of TV shows or limited series....

Underrated Vampire Movies To Watch If You Liked Twilight Summit Distribution By Leo Noboru Lima/July 15, 2022 6:18 pm EST Ah, the “Twilight” saga. Has there ever been a more willfully, aggressively misunderstood cultural phenomenon? Back when the Temple Hill-produced film adaptations of the Stephenie Meyer novels were all the rage, it often seemed as though people — from film critics to media figures to online jesters — were making an active effort to ignore the elements that made the franchise so seismically successful among its target audience....

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Almost Had Luke Skywalker And Harry Potter In The Same Scene [Exclusive] Roku By Jenna Busch/Nov. 4, 2022 11:30 am EST Imagine a world where Harry Potter goes to a pool party and ends up talking to Luke Skywalker. It might seem like fan fiction you came across on a questionable website. Maybe it sounds like a dream you had after you watched “Star Wars” and then fell asleep listening to a “Harry Potter” audiobook...

7 Unfinished Orson Welles Projects (And Why They Didn’t Happen) Peppercorn-Wormser Film Enterprises By Erin Brady/Aug. 15, 2022 11:51 am EST “Citizen Kane” director Orson Welles was a highly prolific and influential filmmaker, to say the least. His obsession with exploring power through unconventional means has resulted in some of the most acclaimed films in the American movie canon. While some of his movies were not fully appreciated in their time, it’s hard to overstate the influence Welles has had on filmmaking and filmmakers to this day....

Akira Kurosawa Never Wanted His Films To Go Exactly According To Plan Toho By Debopriyaa Dutta/Aug. 26, 2022 11:21 am EST Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s contribution to cinema has been unprecedented. Throughout his long and eventful career, Kurosawa crafted films that were both historical and contemporary, which were simultaneously infused with grounded human drama and dreamlike qualities. As someone who was intimately involved in the filming process, Kurosawa paid extensive attention to the visual language of the stories he brought to life....

Alfred Hitchcock’s First True ‘Hitchcock Movie’ Faced A Studio Problem He’d See Again Woolf & Freedman Film Service By Anya Stanley/Sept. 9, 2022 4:58 pm EST In the seminal book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” — a collection of interviews with the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock, conducted by celebrated filmmaker Francois Truffaut — the “Psycho” director looks back on one of his earlier works to identify a studio insistence that let the oxygen out of his creative tank, repeatedly....

Andor Episode 4 Implies That Cassian Could Have Crossed Paths With Han Solo Lucasfilm By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 28, 2022 2:35 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for the first four episodes of Andor. In reflecting on the series premiere, releasing the first three episodes of “Andor” all at once was a brilliant strategy on Lucasfilm’s part. The first two establish a new kind of slow burn to the “Star Wars” universe, before kicking things up a notch with the third....

Better Call Saul Finally Resolves One Of Breaking Bad’s Greatest Cliffhangers AMC By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 3, 2022 10:00 am EST Back when it was first announced, “Better Call Saul” was the perfect cash grab idea for a spin-off show, following in the tradition of such TV spin-offs like “Joey” in taking a fan-favorite comic relief character and making a whole show around them. The show could have easily been a cheap source of fan service, but instead it became a TV miracle....

Will Disney be able to handle social politics? Marvel Studios Social representation is an important part of the “X-Men” franchise. Many comic book readers have interpreted the role that mutants play within the Marvel universe as an extended metaphor for the fight against homophobia. Unfortunately, the MCU has been slow to represent its LGBTQIA fans. It’s rather shameful that the MCU only first introduced an LGBT character in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame....

Casting Bits: Naomi Watts As Princess Di In ‘Caught In Flight;’ Haley Joel Osment In ‘I’ll Follow You Down’ Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock & undefined By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2012 3:30 pm EST There is a staggering amount of casting news today thanks in part to the in-progress European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival, where producers take projects to gather foreign distribution deals and financing. So let’s get right to it....

Citizen Kane Wasn’t Always Seen As A Cinematic Classic RKO By Joshua Meyer/July 30, 2022 12:55 pm EST In the annals of movie history, few titles hold as much weight as “Citizen Kane,” which has become shorthand for the Great American Film, like the Great American Novel, and is frequently shortlisted as such. It’s not just the American Film Institute that thinks “Citizen Kane” is the best movie ever made. Once every 10 years, the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine compiles its own renowned list of the 100 greatest movies of all time based on an international poll of critics, and from 1962 to 2012, when Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” finally edged it out of the top spot, “Citizen Kane” reigned supreme....

Take my revolution Crunchyroll “Revolutionary Girl Utena” aired in April of 1997, created by renegade animators and directors from “Sailor Moon.” Its first episode tells the story of Utena Tenjou, a young woman attending Ohtori Academy. One day she meets a mysterious girl named Anthy tending a flower garden in a greenhouse on campus. Anthy is engaged to Saionji, a member of the Student Council. Saionji physically abuses Anthy and bullies Utena’s friend Wakaba, so Utena challenges Saionji to a duel....